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  • 3 - English in the Real World

  • from Part II - English in/for L2 Learning and Teaching
  • Edited by Christopher J. Hall, York St John University, Rachel Wicaksono, York St John University
  • Book:
    Ontologies of English
    Published online:
    24 December 2019
    Print publication:
    02 January 2020, pp 39-58

  • Summary

    Ontological inquiry into the nature of language has been somewhat marginal since the “linguistic turn” in philosophy (cf. Rorty, 1967), i.e. for about seventy-five years. Although the shift of emphasis from the more concrete objects of investigation to their formal properties has since been reversed, this change in zeitgeist did not give rise to a new wave of ontological rethinking. That was perhaps mainly due to the impact of social constructionism, which was just as sceptical of ontology as logical positivism, albeit from a different perspective: Rather than looking for ‘hard’ properties of true reality in formal structure, social constructionists basically aimed at deconstructing all descriptions that claimed to represent true reality. This book is a welcome sign that things may be changing.